Fit Fueled Free

In the first half of this two-part episode on alcohol, Dani and Jenna dive into Dani's story about her negative relationship with alcohol that lead her to give up drinking for a year to learn who she was without it, what that experience has looked like and her plan to reestablish healthy behaviors once alcohol is reintroduced. * This episode is not covering or giving guidance for alcohol addiction. If you or someone you love is struggling with alcohol addiction this site has helpful guidance on next steps to take https://www.alcohol.org/treatment/hotline/ * 

In today's episode, Jenna and Dani kick off season three with coffee. What to look out for when drinking coffee while healing from an eating disorder or relationship with food, the health benefits, it's role as an ergogenic aid, affects on hormones and how to work through diet-culture messaging around creamers.

In the season two finale, Jenna and Dani have an amazing interview with Britt Bailey, a Registered Dietitian, discussing her recovery from eating disorders and finding a healthier relationship with food, fitness and her body after a pivotal point in her life where she realized she is worthy, why she became a Registered Dietitian and her stance on how to navigate nutrition in our diet culture.

In this week's episode, Dani and Jenna have the honor of interviewing Certified Yoga Instructor, Amani Holloman. Amani shares her journey with yoga and it's importance in mental health, how to come back to your body rather than hyper-focusing on looking perfect with posing, what yoga culture is like and the work she's doing to make it more inclusive as well as accepting your body and it's non-permanence to find peace. 

In today's episode, Jenna and Danielle review the documentary, That Sugar Film, discuss how easily documentaries on health, nutrition and/or fitness create fear rather than educate people to help them make health-promoting changes and why it's harmful to portray a certain food group as "bad" and only discuss weight gain as being a negative thing. 

In today's episode, Jenna and Dani discuss actionable steps they have learned and are taking to be anti-racist, their reflections from #amplifymelanatedvoices and start the conversation on how white supremacy and diet culture are intertwined. Resources mentioned: Anti-Racism Daily https://www.antiracismdaily.com/ // Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings // Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man https://uncomfortableconvos.com/

In this week's episode, Dani and Jenna talk about how to keep nutrition and exercise exciting when you're focusing on listening to your body rather than following a diet or 30 day plan and balancing societal expectations around confidence, priorities and believing in yourself.

In this week's episode Jenna and Dani discuss an experiment Brené Brown used to point out how we can feel invisible in a society that encourages an unrealistic thin ideal, ways that the fashion industry causes so much frustrating with trying on clothes and an update on quarantine eats.

In the third installment of quarantine chats, Jenna and Dani talk about the exhaustion from the collective trauma of COVID-19, how having to connect solely over video-chat impacts us as well as some recipes, self care and how they're passing the time.

Articles: Why are we so tired? // Why zoom is terrible .

In this week's episode, Jenna and Dani share their definition of diet culture, discuss the way it presents itself in how we view and incorporate fitness and nutrition as well as offer ways to combat the standards and find what works for your life.

Resources: 

https://nutritionj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1475-2891-10-9 //
https://christyharrison.com/foodpsych/7/why-health-at-every-size-and-weight-management-cant-coexist-with-deb-burgard